Review: The Diviners

The Diviners by Libba Bray Published by Little Brown on September 18, 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy Source: Gifted Buy on Amazon Goodreads Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer....

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Review: Clockwork Princess

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on March 19th 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy, Young Adult- Supernatural Source: Bought Goodreads London 1873 shape-shifter Tessa Gray 16 is engaged to Jem Carstairs 17, dying of addiction to demon drug, all bought up by evil Mortmain. The "clockwork prince" controls an army of automatons to abduct Tess, kill the Shadowhunters, and blackmail Charlotte Branwell, head of London Institute. Will and Tessa hide their love, for love of Jem. I think this will be one of my few shorts reviews. Because I could say more but I think less is better. Plot: The plot pretty much follows as the other books have. There is lots of action and fighting with the shadow hunters. They made grave...

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Review: Rebel Spring

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Rebel Spring by Morgan Rhodes Published by Razorbill on December 3rd 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Love, power, and magic collide with war in the second book of the Falling Kingdoms series Auranos has fallen and the three kingdoms—Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia—are now united as one country called Mytica. But still, magic beckons, and with it the chance to rule not just Mytica, but the world... When the evil King Gaius announces that a road is to be built into the Forbidden Mountains, formally...

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Review: Witchstruck

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Witchstruck by Victoria Lamb Published by Harlequin Teen on September 24th 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads If she sink, she be no witch and shall be drowned. If she float, she be a witch and must be hanged. Meg Lytton has always known she is different;that she bears a dark and powerful gift. But in 1554 England, in service at Woodstock Palace to the banished Tudor princess Elizabeth, it has never been more dangerous to practice witchcraft. Meg knows she must guard her secret carefully from the...

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Review: The Girl With The Iron Touch

The Girl With The Iron Touch by Kady Cross Published by Harlequin Teen on May 28th 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads In 1897 London, something not quite human is about to awaken When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What's left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons—or forfeit her friends' lives. With Griffin being mysteriously tormented by the Aether, the young duke's sanity is close to the breaking point. Seeking help, Finley turns to Jack Dandy, but trusting the master criminal is as dangerous as...

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